Fireball: A Tennessee plow girl shares her 83 years of life and music

Thank you for considering our proposal. If selected, Hazel will delight and inspire the participants. She is currently in excellent health, but should circumstances prevent her attendance, I will read, discuss, and show a video performance of her singing her original songs.

Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary

This presentation will include readings from Fireball, the soon-to-be-released memoir of Hazel Lindsey, an 83 year old woman raised in poverty in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Discussion of her life, with emphasis on the role music played, will be followed by a performance of one or two of her original songs. I, one of the presenters, am writing Hazel's memoir. The title, Fireball, comes from the nickname given her by her mother when she was a child, a name she continues to live up to. She grew up with poverty and abuse, had only one year of education, but went on to own and operate several businesses. She married eleven husbands. Music took on special importance from the time her blind uncle taught her to play the banjo. She sang, played guitar, and buck danced at country jubilees off and on throughout her life. Her most recent venue was the Ciderville Music Barn in Powell, Tennessee. Hazel is in good health and looks forward to the opportunity to talk about her life and sing one or two of songs. One of these is a humorous ditty she wrote for her three-year-old son when his little sister was born. The other is a mournful tune about a drunken driver running over two children.

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Fireball: A Tennessee plow girl shares her 83 years of life and music

This presentation will include readings from Fireball, the soon-to-be-released memoir of Hazel Lindsey, an 83 year old woman raised in poverty in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Discussion of her life, with emphasis on the role music played, will be followed by a performance of one or two of her original songs. I, one of the presenters, am writing Hazel's memoir. The title, Fireball, comes from the nickname given her by her mother when she was a child, a name she continues to live up to. She grew up with poverty and abuse, had only one year of education, but went on to own and operate several businesses. She married eleven husbands. Music took on special importance from the time her blind uncle taught her to play the banjo. She sang, played guitar, and buck danced at country jubilees off and on throughout her life. Her most recent venue was the Ciderville Music Barn in Powell, Tennessee. Hazel is in good health and looks forward to the opportunity to talk about her life and sing one or two of songs. One of these is a humorous ditty she wrote for her three-year-old son when his little sister was born. The other is a mournful tune about a drunken driver running over two children.